What is lean? A systematic approach that utilises well proven approaches to facilitate the elimination of waste and non-value adding activity. In today’s competitive marketplace can any organization (irrespective of sector) afford not to continuously improve and delight customers, whilst reducing unnecessary costs? Absolutely not and lean gives us a well proven route, first established by Toyota, as to how an enterprise can take major steps to improvement.
This four day workshop takes a practical approach to training the techniques and methodologies of lean. Delegates are expected to ‘roll up their sleeves’ and ‘go to the gemba’ as maximum involvement is key. At the end of the course each participant will have a detailed theoretical knowledge of the key lean tools, but importantly they will have had the chance to see how the techniques work practically and in combination with each other.
Who should attend?
This course builds on the introductory course, through the development of a much more in depth ‘Lean Practitioner’s’ skill set. The Lean Practitioner, a key role in many companies, is fully equipped to return to their organization and make a real measurable difference (to the customer & the company’s balance sheet). Irrespective of seniority (lean is a philosophy that all should partake in) if you are dedicated and believe you can make a real difference this course could be for you.
Benefits to your business
During an intensive four days of teaching and practical ‘hands on’ exercises and simulations participants will be challenged to develop a skill set that can be applied to make improvements to a business irrespective of context. The expectations of a Lean Practitioner are as follows, they will:
- Understand how the ‘lean toolbox’ can benefit any organization and generate improvements and substantive gains in efficiency and quality through the usage of appropriate lean techniques
- Identify and minimise waste and non-value added activity throughout an organization’s processes
- Play a role in developing appropriate scorecards and improvement techniques within an organization
- Involve people at all levels in problem solving/process improvement activities in a fulfilling and motivational way
- Complement, broaden and enhance current improvement activities (including the use of Six Sigma)
Course structure
- An Introduction to the Principles and Practice of ‘Lean’
- Plan Do Check Action Problem Solving
- Workplace Organization & Visual Management Techniques
- Lean Measures & Metrics
- Error Proofing Techniques
- Process & Mapping Techniques & Usage
- Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Rapid Changeover Techniques (SMED)
- Push vs Pull (The Kanban Approach)
- Lean Supply Chains: The Total Value Chain Approach
- Lean Implementation Case Study: Bringing It All Together
Further Information
Four-day course including course notes. Attendance on this course will provide delegates with 32 CPD points.
Next steps
View our Lean Six Sigma training course schedule.
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